...Abstract Recent environmental awareness, drive to lower emission and economic benefits associated with flare gas recovery has seen a shift in flaring practice. Flare Gas Recovery Unit (FGRU) often use well-established amine sweetening technologies to scavenge the deleterious hydrogen sulfide gas...

... Historical Philosophy of Casings Energy Pipelines In the 1980s the Oil and Gas Pipeline industry, in partnership with other underground stakeholders initiated a concerted effort to educate the roadway and railroad agencies with the objective of eliminating or minimizing the requirements for casings...

... and reduce maintenance and replacement costs. tank bottom soil oil gas environment corrosion inhibitor protection INTRODUCTION Corrosion of aboveground storage tank soil side bottoms (SSB) and double bottoms (DB) is a major worldwide problem ¹ . Corrosion may occur on either the product...

... the global energy market. Effective management of limited water resources and control of microbial contamination in all process fluids are crucial to the sustained quality of production fluids. Microbiological contamination in untreated waters is recognized in the oil and gas industry as posing a high risk...

... attempts to reproduce the effects of acid gas in a high pressure field condition using a lower pressure laboratory simulation will result in values of fugacity and aqueous concentration that do not duplicate the field case. Phase Behavior Parameters for Laboratory Simulation Thus when one seeks...

...mothballing long term preservation environment corrosion dehumidification inhibitor protection efficiency service life storage transportation oil gas offshore In today’s business environment, a company needs to be able to react quickly to the dynamic environment in which they exist...

... or flammable nature of the leaking product, monitoring and inspections that can result in a loss of AST production time, and AST bottom replacement required when bottom thickness decreases to 2 mm. Due to these issues in the oil and gas industries, the costs related to corrosion are very high. Examples...

... improvement of corrosion and erosion mitigation and monitoring programs. Enlargement of the gas wells materials framework. Gas Production Wells Corrosion Integrity INTRODUCTION Material selection is one of the critical issues of well integrity programs, considering the impact of damage mechanisms...

... systems involved in gas production and treatment operations. Process conditions tend to promote aggressive corrosion on the most common alloys used in these systems, including carbon steels, low alloy steels and stainless steels. In recent years, the author's organization has initiated a systematic...

...CASE HISTORIES Abstract Numerous industrial facilities, especially offshore oil and gas installations, are plagued by bolt corrosion problems. With a limited record of success in prevention or cure, material loss from corrosion is often factored into maintenance planning, with bolt replacement...

..., for the assessment of high pressure gas wells, with the following objectives: To address variations in active damage mechanisms incidence, due to changes in operating conditions. To calculate metal loss rates on affected components. To assess fitness for service and estimate residual life. As a result...

... examines case studies where laboratory and field data are used as inputs to refine a risk model. The methodology to create the risk picture and assign value to the consequence of corrosion in these systems is explained. Risk assessment materials selection integrity offshore oil gas nuclear waste...

...Abstract Oil and gas plants in Victoria, Australia are subject to the Major Hazards Facilities Regulations administered by Victorian Work Cover Authority. A requirement of those regulations is the preparation of a safety case which documents a safety management system. There are no explicit...

...CASE OF STUDY In this paper we present the case of a 5,600 m length 10” pipeline which failed nearly after a year of service. The gas pipeline construction was performed using API grade X65 steel and FBE coating. The failure consisted of a number of perforations from the exterior of the pipeline...

...The results shown in Table 1 indicate that nearly every molybdenum-containing compound tested resulted in inhibition of growth of the gas pipeline culture in sulfate reducing medium. The inhibition of growth suggests that these compounds are potentially useful as selective inhibitors of SRB...

...Multiple samples were received from various gas companies in either 250-ml plastic jars or 50-ml plastic tubes. Some samples were inoculated into sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) media (see below) containing a submerged metal coupon [ 19 ]. After incubation for 50 days at room temperature...

... for steels being used in petroleum production and gas transportation systems. This model in its current form is not fully applicable for steel surfaces either dry or covered with a real passive scale. 1 Present address: Southwest Research Institute Mechanical and Materials Engineering Division 6220 Culebra...

... employment of different combinations of protection methods to prevent corrosion of the bottom and tops of the storage tanks. storage tank oil water atmosphere gas corrosion inhibitor technology protection INTRODUCTION Storage tanks have different areas of corrosion activity depending...

.... corrosion inhibitor desiccant gas industries vehicle electronics military equipment efficiency service life INTRODUCTION More than 1000 types of VCI compounds are known, but only a fraction of them are efficient, cost effective and environmentally friendly. VCI’s are a class of corrosion...

.... See Figure 2 for a view of the A-1 OH, retaining ring, and associated valve after its recovery from the well and during disassembly at the vendor. Abstract Mensa is a gas field with three subsea wells that are located in 5300 feet (1600 m) of water in the Gulf of Mexico. On January 2, 1998...